The report describes a photo-optical system that has been designed for measuring the pitch and yaw of ground launched rockets during their first twenty feet of flight. The precision of test attitude measurements from the system was within three minutes of arc. The system was based on a one hundred foot optical lever arm consisting of a stationary CW Argon Laser with beam diverging optics, a concave first-surface mirror mounted on the nose of the rocket, and a large reflecting screen. The laser and the screen were each located approximately seven degrees off the rocket flight line. (Author)


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    Title :

    A Laser Optical Lever System for Measuring the Pitch and Yaw of a Ground Launched Rocket


    Contributors:
    C. M. Franz (author)

    Publication date :

    1971


    Size :

    22 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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